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My third lesson with Yoda. I get to the swamp early to practice some chipping and alignments. Readying myself for the teachers eye I dutifully get to both arms straight with a flat left , bent right wrist combo, the left hand and club face remaining perpendicular to the basic plane of my choice. Horizontal , vertical, angled. I had it down. Yoda drives past the chipping green in his red Jaguar waiving. Getting out of his car he points at me and slaps his firm left hand in approval of my display of alignments. All is good right? Ill chip with him blissfully for hours right? Wrong.

"Follow me" says Lynn and we head over to a split rail fence that he wants me to hit over with little 10 foot, sky high flops from total motion. Totally undoing the somewhat rigid set of wrists I had achieved over a winters worth of practice at an indoor dome in Canada. I struggled badly until I let go of the tension , got more rope handle ish and most importantly added a Throw. Some of the balls I hit may never be found in the woods of Marietta.

The lesson, I think, was that impact alignments are not ideally achieved via tension. Golf is a motion, hitting or swinging. A journey from Address to Top to Finish. Yoda was looking for me to achieve my impact hands dynamically, freely while on the way through the three stations. The right hand is not held in a bent position in a wooden manner, nor is it fired.

The Finish Swivel is the bridge between Follow Through and Finish and apparently somewhat of an acid test for a golfers total motion. You start in Basic, move to Acquired but then you have to deal with the Release Swivel and all it implies to what proceeded it.......you cant pass this test without freedom of movement in your hands. The right wrist does flatten but freely, briefly, on its own as opposed to actively. (Unless you are doing it for a specific short shot say with intentional throwaway a 10-3-J type flop shot say that we see the pros doing around the green on tv. But that was like lesson 7 with Yoda)


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